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Walking In Black History, A film by Tom Weber
Join 40 teens and young adults from Erie, PA, on a journey of discovery to the landmarks of the American Civil Rights movement -- Birmingham, Tuskegee, Selma, Montgomery and more -- in Walking In Black History, the newest documentary by filmmaker Tom Weber. The film premiered Feb. 8, 2018, on WQLN-TV54 in Erie.
June 2017 marked the 25th anniversary of the yearly bus trip, founded by Rev. Herlies Murphy, Pastor of Community Baptist Church in Erie, in 1992. Students from Erie area schools apply to go on the trip, which is free of charge to those who are selected. Weber rode along from start to finish, filming everything with a small handheld camcorder.
Gary N. Horton, Executive Director of the Urban Erie Community Development Corporation, picked up the torch from Rev. Murphy and has led the annual trip for more than a decade. Mr. Horton is Executive Producer of the film.
One of the highlights of the film is a tree-planting ceremony in memory of Rev. Murphy at Canaan Hill Primitive Baptist Church, a significant point on the Selma-Montgomery Historic Trail.
On the first day, we visit the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, where four young girls lost their lives in a racist bombing in September 1963, as well as the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, a dramatic museum of the civil rights movement.
On the second day, we drive through Montgomery in the rain, briefly visiting Alabama State University's sprawling campus and the Rosa Parks Museum and spending more time at the Southern Poverty Law Center. We then visit Canaan Hill and its sister congregation at Beulah Land, a few miles away, where we hear an inspiring sermon by Elder Tom Gardner.
We spend most of the third day in and around Tuskegee University, visiting school founder Booker T. Washington's residence, built from bricks made on campus by Tuskegee students. We also spend time at the George Washington Carver Museum, on campus, and at Moton Field, home of the world-renowned Tuskegee Airmen of World War II. A reception follows in the munipal building, with song and dance performances by some of the Erie students.
Leaving Tuskegee on the fourth day, we travel to Atlanta, where we visit the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change. This large complex includes Dr. King's birth home as well as the Ebenezer Baptist Church where he ministered, a comprehensive museum and library, and Dr. King and Mrs. Coretta King's crypt.
On the final day, we drive overnight to Washington, D.C., where a visit to the Martin Luther King Memorial on the National Mall provides a moment to reflect on what we have seen. The students strike up a rousing version of When The Saints Go Marching In over the final few miles back home to Erie.
The Dreamer, a song about Dr. King by the late Texas songwriter Tim Henderson, is used throughout the film by permission of Henderson's widow Marian. The song is part of the permanent collection of the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis.
Weber is an Erie native with numerous independent films to his credit. His films that have previously aired on WQLN include A Few Things About Artists (2018), an exploration of visual arts and artists in the Erie area; 1000 (2017), a collaboration with Abdullah Washington that features local people striving for excellence; and The Trouble With Poets (2014), a performance documentary featuring locally based poets such as Washington, Sean Thomas Dougherty, Monica Igras and Chuck Joy.
Lynching Marker Project - Lowndes County
More communities throughout the country are joining with EJI to participate in our Lynching Marker Project. The project is part of EJI's effort to recognize the victims of lynching by erecting historical markers that acknowledge the horrors of racial terror lynchings.
EJI has documented more than 4000 racial terror lynchings in 12 Southern states between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and 1950. The lynching of African Americans during this era was a form of racial terrorism intended to intimidate black people and enforce racial hierarchy and segregation.
Despite the lasting legacy of racial terrorism and injustice in this country, there is an astonishing absence of efforts to acknowledge, discuss, or address lynching in these states. Many of the communities where lynchings took place have gone to great lengths to erect markers and monuments that memorialize the Civil War, the Confederacy, and historical events during which local power was violently reclaimed by white Southerners. But there are very few monuments or memorials that address the history and legacy of lynching in particular or the struggle for racial equality more generally, and most of the victims of lynching have never been publicly acknowledged.
EJI believes that truthfully acknowledging this history is vital to healing and reconciliation. As part of its effort to help towns, cities, and states confront and recover from tragic histories of racial violence and terrorism, EJI is joining with communities to install historical markers at the sites of lynchings.
Most recently, EJI unveiled an historical marker that documents the lynchings of seven victims in Letohatchee, Alabama, and recognizes 14 documented lynchings that took place in Lowndes County. Dozens participated in the dedication ceremony at Rehobeth Missionary Church in Letohatchee, braving the rain to pray and reflect together on the history of racial terrorism in Lowndes County.
The dedication ceremony featured the winners of the Racial Justice High School Essay Contest, which was open to all high school students living in or attending school in Lowndes County. The first place prize of $3000 was awarded to Central High School 10th grader Yamiri B. Mants for his essay, Things Remain the Same.
Another lynching marker will be erected next month in Abbeville, South Carolina.
EJI believes in the power of truth and reconciliation to address oppressive histories by helping communities to honestly and soberly recognize the pain of the past. As more communities join in this effort to concretize the experience of racial terror through discourse, memorials, markers, and other acts of reconciliation, more are overcoming the shadows cast by these grievous events.
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Julius Henry Groucho Marx (October 2, 1890 -- August 19, 1977) was an American comedian and film and television star. He is known as a master of quick wit and widely considered one of the best comedians of the modern era. His rapid-fire, often impromptu delivery of innuendo-laden patter earned him many admirers and imitators. He made 13 feature films with his siblings the Marx Brothers, of whom he was the third-born. He also had a successful solo career, most notably as the host of the radio and television game show You Bet Your Life. His distinctive appearance, carried over from his days in vaudeville, included quirks such as an exaggerated stooped posture, glasses, cigar, and a thick greasepaint mustache and eyebrows. These exaggerated features resulted in the creation of one of the world's most ubiquitous and recognizable novelty disguises, known as Groucho glasses, a one-piece mask consisting of horn-rimmed glasses, large plastic nose, bushy eyebrows and mustache.
Groucho Marx was, and is, the most recognizable and well-known of the Marx Brothers. Groucho-like characters and references have appeared in popular culture both during and after his life, some aimed at audiences who may never have seen a Marx Brothers movie. Groucho's trademark eye glasses, nose, mustache, and cigar have become icons of comedy—glasses with fake noses and mustaches (referred to as Groucho glasses, nose-glasses, and other names) are sold by novelty and costume shops around the world.
Nat Perrin, close friend of Groucho Marx and writer of several Marx Brothers films, inspired John Astin's portrayal of Gomez Addams on the 1960s TV series The Addams Family with similarly thick mustache, eyebrows, sardonic remarks, backward logic, and ever-present cigar (pulled from his breast pocket already lit).
Alan Alda often vamped in the manner of Groucho on M*A*S*H. In one episode, Yankee Doodle Doctor, Hawkeye and Trapper put on a Marx Brothers act at the 4077, with Hawkeye playing Groucho and Trapper playing Harpo. In three other episodes, a character appeared who was named Captain Calvin Spalding (played by Loudon Wainwright III). Groucho's character in Animal Crackers was Captain Geoffrey T. Spaulding.
On many occasions, on the 1970s television sitcom All In The Family, Michael Stivic (Rob Reiner), would briefly imitate Groucho Marx and his mannerisms.
Two albums by British rock band Queen, A Night at the Opera (1975) and A Day at the Races (1976), are named after Marx Brothers films. In March 1977, Groucho invited Queen to visit him in his Los Angeles home; there they performed '39 a capella. A long-running ad campaign for Vlasic Pickles features an animated stork that imitates Groucho's mannerisms and voice. On the famous Hollywood Sign in California, one of the Os is dedicated to Groucho. Alice Cooper contributed over $27,000 to remodel the sign, in memory of his friend.
In 1982, Gabe Kaplan portrayed Marx in the film Groucho, in a one-man stage production. He also imitated Marx occasionally on his previous TV sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter.
Actor Frank Ferrante has performed as Groucho Marx on stage for more than two decades. He continues to tour under rights granted by the Marx family in a one-man show entitled An Evening With Groucho in theaters throughout the United States and Canada with piano accompanist Jim Furmston. In the late 1980s Ferrante starred as Groucho in the off-Broadway and London show Groucho: A Life in Revue penned by Groucho's son Arthur. Ferrante portrayed the comedian from age 15 to 85. The show was later filmed for PBS in 2001. Woody Allen's 1996 musical Everyone Says I Love You, in addition to being named for one of Groucho's signature songs, ends with a Groucho-themed New Year's Eve party in Paris, which some of the stars, including Allen and Goldie Hawn, attend in full Groucho costume. The highlight of the scene is an ensemble song-and-dance performance of Hooray for Captain Spaulding—done entirely in French.
In the last of the Tintin comics, Tintin and the Picaros, a balloon shaped like the face of Groucho could be seen in the Annual Carnival.
In the Italian horror comic Dylan Dog, the protagonist's sidekick is a Groucho impersonator whose character became his permanent personality.
The BBC remade the radio sitcom Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel, with contemporary actors playing the parts of the original cast. The series was repeated on digital radio station BBC7. Scottish playwright Louise Oliver wrote a play named Waiting For Groucho about Chico and Harpo waiting for Groucho to turn up for the filming of their last project together. This was performed by Glasgow theatre company Rhymes with Purple Productions at the Edinburgh Fringe and in Glasgow and Hamilton in 2007-08. Groucho was played by Scottish actor Frodo McDaniel.
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Ralph Bunche
Ralph Johnson Bunche was an American political scientist, academic, and diplomat who received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for his late 1940s mediation in Israel. He was the first African American and the first American person of color to be so honored in the history of the prize. He was involved in the formation and administration of the United Nations. In 1963, he was awarded the Medal of Freedom by President John F. Kennedy.
For more than two decades, Bunche served as chair of the Department of Political Science at Howard University, where he also taught generations of students. He served as a member of the Board of Overseers of his alma mater, Harvard University, as a member of the board of the Institute of International Education, and as a trustee of Oberlin College, Lincoln University, and New Lincoln School.
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Casper, Wyoming
Casper is a city in and the county seat of Natrona County, Wyoming, United States. Casper is the second-largest city in Wyoming, according to the 2010 census, with a population of 55,316. Only Cheyenne, the state capital, is larger. Casper is nicknamed The Oil City and has a long history of oil boomtown and cowboy culture, dating back to development of the nearby Salt Creek Oil Field. In 2010, Casper was named the highest-ranked family-friendly small city in the West, and ranked eighth overall in the nation in Forbes magazine's list of the best small cities to raise a family.
Casper is located in east-central Wyoming at the foot of Casper Mountain, the north end of the Laramie Mountain Range, along the North Platte River.
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Ralph Johnson Bunche (; August 7, 1904
– December 9, 1971) was an American political scientist, academic, and diplomat who received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for his late 1940s mediation in Israel. He was the first African American to be so honored in the history of the prize. He was involved in the formation and administration of the United Nations. In 1963, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President John F. Kennedy.
For more than two decades (1928 to 1950), Bunche served as chair of the Department of Political Science at Howard University, where he also taught generations of students. He served as a member of the Board of Overseers of his alma mater, Harvard University (1960–1965), as a member of the board of the Institute of International Education, and as a trustee of Oberlin College, Lincoln University, and New Lincoln School.
In August 2008, the United States National Archives and Records Administration made public the fact that Bunche had joined the US Office of Strategic Services (OSS) – the precursor organization to the Central Intelligence Agency – during World War II.
Praise Dance: Freedom medley in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Unitarian Universalism (UU) is a liberal religion characterized by a free and responsible search for truth and meaning. Unitarian Universalists assert no creed, but instead are unified by their shared search for spiritual growth. As such, their congregations include many atheists, agnostics, and theists within their membership. The roots of Unitarian Universalism lie in liberal Christianity, specifically Unitarianism and universalism. Unitarian Universalists state that from these traditions comes a deep regard for intellectual freedom and inclusive love. Congregations and members seek inspiration and derive insight from all major world religions.The beliefs of individual Unitarian Universalists range widely, including atheism, agnosticism, pantheism, deism, Judaism, Islam, Christianity, neopaganism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Daoism, Humanism, and many more.The Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) was formed in 1961 through the consolidation of the American Unitarian Association, established in 1825, and the Universalist Church of America, established in 1793. The UUA is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, and serves churches mostly in the United States. A group of thirty Philippine congregations is represented as a sole member within the UUA. The Canadian Unitarian Council (CUC) became an independent body in 2002. The UUA and CUC are, in turn, two of the seventeen members of the International Council of Unitarians and Universalists.However, some Unitarian Universalist churches today have statements of faith that profess a Protestant Christian identity.